The Senate has passed a massive annual defense bill that would deliver a 5.2% pay raise for service members and keep the nation's military operating, avoiding partisan policy battles with an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote.

A federal court's rejection of a key Biden administration asylum rule enacted in May is raising fresh concerns of a potential border surge.

This biography includes excerpts from Fitzgerald’s letters, stories, and novels.

Shoplifting has increased by 90% since 2018.

Not everyone can be or should want to be a leader, but almost anyone can hope to find true love.

The French actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) was the first global celebrity: the first artist to be eclipsed by her image in her own lifetime, and the first to inhabit that image on multiple continents. Bernhardt first became renowned in France as a tragic actress, but then became a celebrity, as notorious for her exotic offstage life as she was admired for her onstage roles. In Britain and America, however, she began as a famous French actress, a figure combining the spectacle of theatrical performance with the spectacle of offstage celebrity.

In San Francisco, stores have resorted to keeping coffee, mustard, syrup, and lotion under lock and key.

One of President Joe Biden’s biggest political headaches, the many illegal activities of his son Hunter Biden, was supposed to pass quietly into obscurity July 26 when a federal judge was expected to rubber-stamp a plea agreement between the Department of Justice and the accused.